To:L. B. KAMENEV

Written:Written in August, not later than 5, 1920Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth Ed., Vol. 51.

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Weshould say (in regard to the frontier) that we shall
givemore(the line will befarther to the
east),[1]

butnotsay:
“much” more,muchfarther to the east.

[1]Thisrefers to Poland’s Eastern frontier, which was arbitrarily
fixed by the Supreme Council of the Entente at the end of the
1914–18 imperialist war, on December 8, 1919. This frontier was
to run along the line: Grodno—Yalovka—Nemirov—Brest-Litovsk
—Dorogusk—Ustilug—Krylov, and was to cut across Galicia
between Przemysl and Rava-Russkaya up to the Carpathian
Mountains. This line was mentioned also in Lord Curzon’s Note of
July 11, 1920, and became known as the “Curzon Line”.

TheSoviet Government, in proposing peace to Poland, was
ready to accept as the Polish-Soviet frontier a line east of the
“Curzon Line”.

Thepresent note is Lenin’s directive to the chairman of the
Soviet delegation sent to London for negotiations with the British
Government.